Multipole expansion

mathematical series approximating an angle-dependent function

mathematical model

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Description

Multipole expansions are often used to represent electromagnetic fields, where the fields at distant points are given in terms of sources (charges and/or currents) in a small region (far field limit). The first term is called the monopole moment, the second term is called the dipole moment, the third term the quadrupole moment, etc.

Contained entities

spherical harmonics expansion (3D)	$V(r,\theta ,\phi )=\sum _{\ell =0}^{\mathrm{\infty }}\sum _{m=-\ell }^{\ell }{C}_{\ell }^m(r)Y_{\ell }^m(\theta ,\phi )$
	$\theta$ represents polar angle
	$\phi$ represents azimuthal angle
	$r$ represents radial coordinate

Computational tasks

far field radiation

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipole_expansion

Further links

Item	Property
electromagnetic field	modelled by
Maxwell's equations	specialized by

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